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Anthropology Quotes
"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities."
"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology."
"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
"If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology."
"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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